Arthur C. Brooks

I would say, if you leave me, that's okay, but you got to take me with you.

And so the result of it was that when I wrote it up and actually into a book, a lot of people read it and it turns out a lot of people were interested in this.

So your interest in menopause, for example, it was your particular interest that it turns out that everybody shared and you didn't know it.

And that took a leap of faith.

For me, it was like, what happens...

in your life, when you know you're done with one thing, but you're not done with your life, and there's something else to give, how do you find that new thing?

And it turns out lots and lots of people were asking that question.

There was nothing else written about it.

And so that's how From Strength to Strength came about.

And at the same time, I was moving on to taking a teaching position at Harvard, where I've been teaching the science of happiness for the past seven years.

I write columns and books, and I do a lot of media.

Thank you.

And it's been this unbelievable opportunity to do public education, to actually move out into the world and talk about how science can be in the interest of everybody watching us.

And it's been an incredible opportunity.

My second curve has actually become to be a professor in the public sphere, to bring these scientific ideas to life.

No, when I was playing the French horn, I didn't see anything beyond playing the French horn.

When I was a college professor, there was nothing beyond that.

Now at this point, oh yeah, maybe I'm 61.

Maybe at 65, I'll go be a circus juggler, a firefighter.

I don't know.